From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:03:36 +0000 Subject: Re: AG: Re: Re: Problems defining an udev rule for usb-daq board Message-Id: <20060821220336.GB2342@kroah.com> List-Id: References: <15125359.1156191396712.JavaMail.root@ps17> In-Reply-To: <15125359.1156191396712.JavaMail.root@ps17> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 10:16:36PM +0200, a0123195@tiscali.de wrote: > >----Urspr??ngliche Nachricht---- > >Von: greg@kroah.com > >Datum: 21.08.2006 18:49 > >An: > >Cc: > >Betreff: Re: Re: Problems defining an udev rule for usb-daq board > > > >On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:55:33PM +0200, a0123195@tiscali.de wrote: > >> The usbdux code is part of comedi, see e.g. http://www.comedi. > >> org/download/comedilib-0.7.22.tar.gz, more information about the > daq > >> board is here: http://www.linux-usb-daq.co.uk/. > > > >Ah, ok, that fun thing :( > > > >Try asking the authors of that code to fix it up, as it is not under > the > >GPL, I'm not allowed to touch it, sorry. > > I think the driver is GPL'ed: http://www.linux-usb-daq.co. > uk/opensource2/ and you have also access to the firmware. I can > contact > the authors of usbdux when needed, we bought several and use them > with > laptopts. > > I can't remember the URL of the email thread (on www.comedi.org), but > I think that Bernd Porr, author of usbdux, appreciate any help to > integrate the usbdux driver with udev. Ok, in looking at the code, the comedi layer is going to have to be modified to support sysfs and the driver model properly in order for this device to work with udev in a sane manner. I suggest working with the developers of that code to do this. Also ask them why their code isn't in the main kernel.org tree, it should be... thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel